The more i read about BCN and DSH, the more i get convinced about their greed driven backrounds at the expense of their honest (and unfortunately naive) supportes.
Everyone around here is greedy, don't kid yourselves, you don't think someone like smooth isn't looking to get rich either? Besides what is the point of currency but to accumulate it and spend it and make money, it is the essence of capitalism.
Anyway the only thing I disagree with about the original Bytecoin devs is how they tried to cover up their premine shenanigans. I think they should have been more honest and been like, we created this revolutionary new crypto tech, we are proud of our work and believe we should be compensated for it and will be distributing all of the coins at xx cents a piece on __ exchange for the community to distribute, if you don't like it, don't buy.
No one calls Factom or Ethereum a scam because they chose to premine the majority of the supply and sell it off as an ICO. The cryptonote team should have done something similar.